Now if the wolves had coat hangers, this story would have turned out very differently.
Posted on 01/11/2020 6:00:20 PM PST by nickcarraway
The first thing you will realize when visiting Yellowstone National Park – aside from the astonishing beauty of nature and wildlife – is that you have entered an area that isn’t totally ruled by humans. A pair of visitors at the park recently recorded a video that proves this point, and it might make you feel a little uneasy..
As NBC Montana reports, Brandon Beshears captured and shared video of a wolf pack surrounding his truck while he was driving through the park one evening.
Check out the video from NBC Montana’s Facebook below (VOLUME UP TO HEAR THE PACK SOUND-OFF!):
A little creepy, right?
Notice the remainder of the pack in his rear view mirror? Yeah, talk a bad time to get out of your vehicle and mess with nature. We’ve seen it before though..
A lot of people have an infatuation with black wolves because of their exceptionally striking appearance, and you can’t blame them. If you’re like me, you never get tired learning about this incredible K-9’s!
Honest to Paws has an interesting article about the mysterious black wolves of Yellowstone, which details the history of these majestic looking animals.
They don’t look that menacing. Probably would have ran away if somebody got out of the car.
Imagine how nice it is for the wolves to hang out on the cleared road instead of four feet of powder snow. That is what they’re doing.
In Wyoming .... there’s a saying we have when seeing wolves ... which is SSS!
Which stands for “Shoot, Shovel, and Shut-up!”
That is badass!
The howling is eerie - like something from a Dracula movie.
‘Winter’ in Yellowstone can include the end of May
We went camping then and for the whole week it hardly got above freezing......with snow
This is one of the great Leftist boondoggles ever.
These wolves aren’t even native to the area.
There had always been some native wolves around Yellowstone, and for some distance north, east and west.
The importation of these much larger and more aggressive Canadian wolves have put an end not only to the native wolves, but also to wild elk herds by the thousand.
The idea of transferring the big large-pack Canadian wolves into the area was accomplished under the guise of a surplus of elk throughout the area.
That was probably the case, yet it could have been handled by changing hunting seasons, offering more tags, that kind of thing.
But the enviros wanted to use the imported wolves to put an end to hunting, guided hunts, and ranching and other livestock management in general.
The wolves run in large packs, they kill for sport, they have slashed the size and health of elk herds in the area, simply because they never cease to kill.
They will run elk to death on the flat, herd them into snowy valleys where the elk founder, and are torn to bits, they will chase elk herds up and down out of small deeper valleys until the elk simply drop dead from panicked exertion.
They will bring down elk for sport, then maybe eat the fetuses out of the pregnant cows. They will drag down royal bulk elk, eat away part of the hindquarters and leave the rest to die.
What has happened to the great Yellowstone elk herds is but a latter-day shame on the order of the slaughter of 19th century bison herds.
Don’t be fooled by the goo-goo-eyed park officials and the usual (wealthy, West Coast transplant) suspects who support anything that will hurt hard-working families on the land.
This has been a travesty. Here’s an final small example: This past fall foolish tourists were (as usual) getting too close to bison, bear, elk with calves and so on.
But something was different about the attacks involving elk. Turns out the elk were taking cover near the Park buildings, because there are enough people around to keep the wolves away.
Tourists were being charged and sometimes flattened by elk cows, for no apparent reason, it seemed-—and that’s how the complicit media covered it.
What was really happening was that the elk cows were leaving their calves in the tall grass around the Park buildings, then were going off a ways to graze on their own, and later coming back to find their calves-—who sometimes had been stumbled upon by foolish, wide-eyed tourists who had no idea there was even a mama elk in the picture.
Well, there was, and they were eager to unmesmerize the tourists.
The elk hanging near the buildings was highly unusual, and was portrayed as a great gift to fawning (so to speak) tourists...when actually the elk were simply hanging about with the tourists, the best and easiest ways to avoid the hunting packs of wolves.
Walk this way
The road from Gardiner (North entrance) through the park to Cooke City (Northeast entrance) is open year round. My sister used to live in Cooke City and moved to Gardiner when she had kids (mostly so they wouldn’t have to take the road to Gardiner for school every day).
Colorado’s mascot is Ralphie who has a habit of tossing the handlers about the track at Folsom Field.
Also, good hunting in the Dakotas. Thanks.
That was my first thought. Someone may have conditioned these wolves to expect food from cars and humans.
I was on Assateague once, when a bunch of the feral horses surrounded our car, stuck their heads in the windows, sniffing us out. We had to just sit there until they realized there was no food forthcoming, and moved away.
Wow, at first I was confused. I thought the guy had been accosted by a bunch of Rex Stout fans!
Archie doesn’t do well outside the city?
Devotees of Karl Doenitz?
He was big on that wolf pack stuff.
People probably feed them from cars. That’s why they are interested in car. IMO.
As usual, human intervention into nature’s plan has very bad consequences. The elk herd I referenced in my comment had absolute nothing to do with this situation, it is a wild elk herd native to central Pennsylvania that used to graze regularly down the hill from where I lived. I had noticed them lingering one day and got my video camera to tape them; followed (at a safe distance) the herd for about three miles through the forest until my camera went dead. That was an absolutely incredible experience not at all involving meddlesome libtard interventionists.
Now if the wolves had coat hangers, this story would have turned out very differently.
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